The house, once filled with laughter and love, now echoed with the shouts of the demolition crew. But for Clara, the sounds were barely audible. Her focus was elsewhere, on the potential.

She had always been a pragmatist, seeing the world in terms of its practical value. Now, she saw the house as a repository of material wealth.

She worked systematically. Room by room, she cataloged every item, assessing its value. She felt a lightness, an excitement as she imagined the cash, the profits.

She was focused on the end game, on a new life that lay ahead. The house's destruction was merely a necessary process.

Emotion: greedy

Cluster: Defiance / Spite
PC1 (Valence): 1.44 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 2.64

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion greedy. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 greedy stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the greedy emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the greedy vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de1.148
a0.538
an0.510
or0.479
来实现0.464
Suppressed:
S-0.426
想起-0.356
久し-0.355
再次-0.354
причиной-0.342